TY - JOUR AU - Wallace, Ryan AU - Cliquet, Florence AU - Fehlner-Gardiner, Christine AU - Fooks, Anthony AU - Sabeta, Claude AU - Setién, Alvaro Aguilar AU - Tu, Changchun AU - Vuta, Vlad AU - Yakobson, Boris AU - Yang, Dong-Kun AU - Brückner, Gideon AU - Freuling, Conrad AU - Knopf, Lea AU - Metlin, Artem AU - Pozzetti, Patricia AU - Suseno, Pebi Purwo AU - Shadomy, Sean AU - Torres, Gregorio AU - Vigilato, Marco Antonio Natal AU - Abela-Ridder, Bernadette AU - Müller, Thomas T1 - Role of Oral Rabies Vaccines in the Elimination of Dog-Mediated Human Rabies Deaths T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 12 SP - 1 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Domestic dogs are responsible for nearly all the »59,000 global human rabies deaths that occur annually. Numerous control measures have been successful at eliminating dog-mediated human rabies deaths in upper-income countries, including dog population management, parenteral dog vaccination programs, access to human rabies vaccines, and education programs for bite prevention and wound treatment. Implementing these techniques in resource-poor settings can be challenging; perhaps the greatest challenge is maintaining adequate herd immunity in free-roaming dog populations. Oral rabies vaccines have been a cornerstone in rabies virus elimination from wildlife populations; however, oral vaccines have never been effectively used to control dog-mediated rabies. Here, we convey the perspectives of the World Organisation for Animal Health Rabies Reference Laboratory Directors, the World Organisation for Animal Health expert committee on dog rabies control, and World Health Organization regarding the role of oral vaccines for dogs. We also issue recommendations for overcoming hesitations to expedited field use of appropriate oral vaccines. KW - rabies KW - zoonotic KW - disease control KW - viruses KW - zoonoses KW - dogs KW - vaccine-preventable diseases DO - 10.3201/eid2612.201266 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/12/20-1266_article ER - End of Reference